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Rio+20: Statement from the Women’s Major Group

Today, March 26th, during the Third Intersessional meeting of the UNCSD — to discuss and prepare the outcome of Rio+20 in June– the Women’s Major Group delivered the following intervention:

Thank you Ms. Thompson, Mr Lalonde, for this opportunity of interaction.

I am Doris Mpoumou (with the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region), and I speak on behalf of the women’s major group. We, the Women’s Major Group, are deeply concerned, about the pace and state of the negotiations of the past week. Let me reword this: we are scandalized!